A Michael Broad Blog
It all came together this Christmas for Joe Rodriguez: cat rescue, Christmas and a new cat companion. Joe was at a Bronx garage for an oil change and ended up rescuing a 6-month-old, female ginger tabby from the engine compartment of another car. You can see in his photo that the cat was wedged …
In a woman’s backyard, in the Mississippi Gulf, a coyote attacked the lady’s Maine Coon cat and had his head in its mouth while she was in the backyard at the same time. The coyote are confident animals and it seems well urbanised in their mentality. The lady, Virginia Simmons, ran towards the coyote …
Here are some thoughts on our relationship with cats by Jackson Galaxy. Jackson gave an interview to the New York Times and in it he expresses some interesting views. Personally, I don’t think it is that good an interview but as mentioned it is interesting. One problem is that it may have been overly …
She is a female lion – a lioness – living in Botswana’s Okavango Delta but looks and behaves very much like a male lion and the most discernible feature is her magnificent, flowing mane. The locals have named her Mmamoriri. Scientists are not sure why she has the mane of an adult male lion. …
One of the things I enjoy the most about this time of the year is the anticipation and excitement I always feel as I slowly survey the pile of tantalizing, beautifully wrapped holiday gifts which are so mysterious and alluring. However, what delights me even more is getting to watch that pile of presents …
In a throwback to the Dark Ages and witches familiars (“familiar” (noun): a spirit often embodied in an animal and held to attend and serve or guard a person.), a woman claimed that she was a witch and that she wanted to kill and eat her cat. She got as far as killing her …
Back in 1978 there was a firefighters’ strike. The army where called out to step into their shoes. The army does not have fire trucks. They have their own firefighting vehicles called “Green Goddesses” – a sort of pared-down cheap version of a fire truck painted green and built in the mid 1950s. On …
The New York Times asks the question in the title in a short post in which they refer to the bill going through New York state’s legislature which intends to ban declawing in that state. It is being debated. The vets are against it as they would be. They say that the decision to …
